Baracoa, station 3476 (Pliocene of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (20.3° N, 74.5° W: paleocoordinates 20.4° N, 73.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• equivalent to Bowden Marl

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; yellow marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189-524 [R. Baron-Szabo/R. Baron-Szabo/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124532: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.02.2012

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites baracoaensis n. sp. Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora granulata Duncan 1864 stony coral
Pocillopora baracoaensis n. sp. Vaughan 1919 stony coral